Re: [Rosegarden-user] Choose Text Encoding
"D. Michael McIntyre" writes: > Rosegarden has to ask, because there's nothing in the standard that > can tell us what encoding to use, and we don't trust ourselves to > guess. I'd suggest a config setting, e.g. in [General_Options]: midi_encoding=utf-8 When set, it will always use utf-8 encoding for the texts in midi files. > If we did have some option to "always use this encoding from now on" > then how would the user deal with it when they encountered a MIDI file > that wasn't encoded in UTF-8? I can remove the abovementioned option from Rosegarden.conf. Also, utf-8 is quite strict. When decoding a file with utf-8 gives errors, you can always fallback to asking the user. But it's a minor nuisance. -- Johan -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Ciosco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Choose Text Encoding
On 19 October 2011 22:48, Johan Vromans wrote: > Yes. That's the surprising part. Apparently Rosegarder *does* have a > clue. (Unless it always presents UTF-8 as default choice.) No, I think it tries to guess from the content. The problem is that the guess isn't terribly reliable; it goes for UTF-8 if it isn't very sure. Chris -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Ciosco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Choose Text Encoding
Chris Cannam writes: >> Rosegarden has to ask, because there's nothing in the standard that can tell >> us what encoding to use, and we don't trust ourselves to guess. > > Does the dialog at least give you the right default? Yes. That's the surprising part. Apparently Rosegarder *does* have a clue. (Unless it always presents UTF-8 as default choice.) -- Johan -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Ciosco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Choose Text Encoding
On 19 October 2011 18:42, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, Johan Vromans wrote: > >> Is there a way I can instruct RoseGarden to *always* use UTF-8 and not >> bother me with encoding selection? > > Rosegarden has to ask, because there's nothing in the standard that can tell > us what encoding to use, and we don't trust ourselves to guess. Does the dialog at least give you the right default? There's quite a big difference in annoyance between just clicking OK and having to select from the menu first. Chris -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Ciosco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Choose Text Encoding
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, Johan Vromans wrote: > When I open a MIDI file, I always get a dialog "Choose Text Encoding". > My MIDI files contain text (vocals) that is UTF-8 encoded Unicode. > > Is there a way I can instruct RoseGarden to *always* use UTF-8 and not > bother me with encoding selection? Rosegarden has to ask, because there's nothing in the standard that can tell us what encoding to use, and we don't trust ourselves to guess. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a clean alternative to that necessity. If we did have some option to "always use this encoding from now on" then how would the user deal with it when they encountered a MIDI file that wasn't encoded in UTF-8? It's hard to tell from a glance how successful a "change text encoding" function might be. I suppose that would be the way to do it though. Default to UTF-8 in this day and age, and provide a facility for changing the encoding if the strings are coming out wonky. Unfortunately, all I have time for this morning is a quick glance, and all I can tell from that glance is that this is more than I have time to think about just now. -- D. Michael McIntyre -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Ciosco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
[Rosegarden-user] Choose Text Encoding
When I open a MIDI file, I always get a dialog "Choose Text Encoding". My MIDI files contain text (vocals) that is UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Is there a way I can instruct RoseGarden to *always* use UTF-8 and not bother me with encoding selection? -- Johan -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
